SPECT gallium scintigraphy in malignant external otitis: Initial staging and follow-up. Case reports

Laryngoscope

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 338-340

  Stokkel, Marcel P M ^a   Boot, Ina C N ^a   van Eck Smit, Berthe L F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS EXTERNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029928043     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199603000-00018     Document Type: Article

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